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Monument details
HER Number: | TR 23 NW 58 |
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Type of record: | Findspot |
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Name: | Neolithic impliments and pottery |
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Summary
A leaf shaped arrowhead and sandstone axe were found at Caesar's Camp, as was some Neolithic pottery. All finds are in the Folkestone Museum. The pottery was found during Pitt-Rivers' excavations of 1878.
Grid Reference: | TR 213 379 |
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Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Associated Finds
- ARROWHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- HANDAXE (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
- SHERD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
Full description
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In store in Folkestone Museum is a Ne. leaf-shaped arrowhead found at Caesar's Camp at an unknown date and donated by the late N.Toke. On display from the same site is a small sandstone Ne. axe found September 1907, also some Ne. `B' sherds found in 1878 during excavations of Caesar's Camp (TR 23 NW 2) by Pitt-Rivers (a). (1-4)
RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKe6910.
<1> Arch 47 1883 429-65 (Pitt-Rivers) (OS Card Reference). SKE34425.
<2> F1 ASP 07.05.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE41969.
<3> Field report for monument TR 23 NW 58 - May, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5634.
<4> RPS Clouston, 1994, Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main (Unpublished document). SKE6910.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | --- | Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main. |
<1>XY | OS Card Reference: Arch 47 1883 429-65 (Pitt-Rivers). [Mapped feature: #45179 find, ] |
<2> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 07.05.64. |
<3> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TR 23 NW 58 - May, 1964. |
<4> | Unpublished document: RPS Clouston. 1994. Folkestone & Dover Water services: Bluehouse to Cherry Garden Trunk Main. |